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Player Spotlight: Matt Hasselbeck (1 Viewer)

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2009 Player Spotlight Series

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Thread Topic: Matt Hasselbeck, QB, Seattle Seahawks

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low risk with high reward - thats how I see Hass this year. you can grab him as a backup but he has potential to be a good starter if......he just stays healthy.

Lousy running game, added a top WR in Housh - Nate and Branch should be healthy with Carlson improving even more- there are weapons in Seattle.

Schedule - about as easy as it gets.

grab him as a backup if you dont have one of the stud QBs and you may strike gold - I see him staying healthy and putting up top 10 stats

people forget that he threw for almost 4,000 yds 28TDs/12ints in 2007 - not too long ago. back injuries are tricky so there is risk but at his ADP its well worth it IMO

assuming he is healthy for my projections: 3,400 yds 25 TDs 14 ints

 
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low risk with high reward - thats how I see Hass this year. you can grab him as a backup but he has potential to be a good starter if......he just stays healthy. Lousy running game, added a top WR in Housh - Nate and Branch should be healthy with Carlson improving even more- there are weapons in Seattle. Schedule - about as easy as it gets. grab him as a backup if you dont have one of the stud QBs and you may strike gold - I see him staying healthy and putting up top 10 statspeople forget that he threw for almost 4,000 yds 28TDs/12ints in 2007 - not too long ago. back injuries are tricky so there is risk but at his ADP its well worth it IMOassuming he is healthy for my projections: 3,400 yds 25 TDs 14 ints
:shrug: Although I don't agree with your opinion that Housh is a top WR. He's good, but limited. That's moot here though. Seattle has a glutton of good-but-not great pass catchers that all do different things well, couple that with a sub par running game and you have a recipe for lots of throwing, more than Knapp + Mora want to do but this is the hand they've been dealt. Hass is a bargain where he's being drafted.
 
low risk with high reward - thats how I see Hass this year. you can grab him as a backup but he has potential to be a good starter if......he just stays healthy. Lousy running game, added a top WR in Housh - Nate and Branch should be healthy with Carlson improving even more- there are weapons in Seattle. Schedule - about as easy as it gets. grab him as a backup if you dont have one of the stud QBs and you may strike gold - I see him staying healthy and putting up top 10 statspeople forget that he threw for almost 4,000 yds 28TDs/12ints in 2007 - not too long ago. back injuries are tricky so there is risk but at his ADP its well worth it IMOassuming he is healthy for my projections: 3,400 yds 25 TDs 14 ints
:goodposting: Although I don't agree with your opinion that Housh is a top WR. He's good, but limited. That's moot here though. Seattle has a glutton of good-but-not great pass catchers that all do different things well, couple that with a sub par running game and you have a recipe for lots of throwing, more than Knapp + Mora want to do but this is the hand they've been dealt. Hass is a bargain where he's being drafted.
good analysis. however I will point out that with 3 good (but not great) WR's the problem is that as a defense, you cannot really key on any one of them or you will cause yourself to get burned in another area of the field. You need to have a good defense in all aspects or you will get burned somewhere on the matchup in the passing game. (at least that is the theory) so if you have a QB that is good at reading defenses, this strategy can be very effective. It worked for the Pats early in Brady's career (no stud WR's on that roster until the arrival of Moss) and it could work here if Hass remains healthy. I am skeptical about his health, but I'd bite late in our auction draft if he could be had for a reasonable price.
 
One could say Matt Hasselbeck is a very good QB. One could also say Matt Hasselbeck is a very good QB with back problems. One could also say Matt Hasselbeck is a very good QB with back problems that is one hit/sack away from his bulging disk flaring up again.

His health makes me weary, IMO he is a QB2.

 
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One could say Matt Hasselbeck is a very good QB. One could also say Matt Hasselbeck is a very good QB with back problems. One could also say Matt Hasselbeck is a very good QB with back problems that is one hit/sack away from his bulging disk flaring up again.His health makes me weary, IMO he is a QB2.
this is what i'm thinkin. if you take him, better have another guy you are ok with as a weekly starter.
 
With that running game and a TD hawk like Housh I see a lot of goal line passing plays rather than run plays. At least more than most teams inside the 5.... That could pad the TD total

 
With that running game and a TD hawk like Housh I see a lot of goal line passing plays rather than run plays. At least more than most teams inside the 5.... That could pad the TD total
The Seahawks were actually pretty good at running the ball in short yardage situations last year. Especially TJ Duckett, scoring 8 TDs, on 10 carries in goal line situations.
 

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